Where: Falls County, Texas (31.3° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 75.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: P. quadripunctata nannofossil zone, Corsicana Marl Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Discoscaphites iris ammonoid zone - Landman et al., 2004

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. A. Hansen, B. Upshaw, E. G. Kauffman and W. Gose. 1993. Patterns of molluscan extinction and recovery across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas; report on new outcrops. Cretaceous Research 14:685-706 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5566: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.10.1999

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